Nick Saban staying at Alabama, squashes Texas rumors

Alabama head coach Nick Saban will be a fixture on the Crimson Tide sidelines for years to come. (Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle)

After coming to what is being called a ‘long-term agreement’ with Alabama, Nick Saban cleared the air about rumors he would coach at Texas.

Apparently, it was never an option for the four-time national champion.

“The way this sort of got spun, it was a little bit more like, ‘OK, he got a new contract at Alabama, so he’s going to stay at Alabama instead of going to Texas,'” Saban said in a report by ESPN. “I never considered going to Texas. That wasn’t even a conversation. I knew that if Mack stepped down, there would probably be an opportunity, but it wasn’t something I was interested in doing, not at this stage in my career.”

There has been much speculation about the future of Texas head coach Mack Brown. Saban said that the situation has been unfair to Brown.

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Mack Brown,” Saban said. “Mack Brown is the coach at Texas. He deserves the right, based on his body of work, to be able to leave the program the way he wants to leave the program. It wasn’t fair to him or to me to be speculating about this job, which I haven’t talked to anybody there about. “Really, the whole thing from my perspective stunk, but there wasn’t a hell of a lot I could do about it.”

In all likelihood, Saban indicated that he will not make another coaching move for the remainder of his career.

“I don’t want to go someplace else,” he said. “I don’t know how many times I can say that.”